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Arms Control in the Middle East
Cooperative Security Dialogue and Regional Constraints
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This book focuses on the Middle East
arms control process as it unfolded during the years 1992–1995,
as part of the multilateral track of the Arab–Israeli peace
process initiated in Madrid, October 1991. This was the story of
a regional process in the making: from the very concept of arms
control as applied to the region, through the innovative regional
forum and format for discussion that was devised for the talks,
to the dynamics of the talks and the question of Egypt’s position
within this novel regional setting. The result was that what seemed
at the outset to be a most likely unpromising forum became the setting
of unprecedented regional dynamics.
The in-depth examination of ACRS
– Arms Control Regional Security working group – engenders
important insights into a number of concepts that lie at the heart
of international relations studies: the notion of the strategic
game, the meaning of power, the definition of security threats,
the notions of hegemony and leadership, state identity, the conduct
of regional politics, and the significance of cooperative processes
in international relations.
Published in association with the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
| Hardback ISBN: | 978-1-84519-028-6 |
| Hardback Price: | £55.00 / $85.00 |
| Release Date: | July 2006 |
| Page Extent / Format: | 292 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
| Illustrated: | No |
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Approaching Cooperative Security Dialogue
The Structure and Dynamics of Cooperation
Constructivism and Security Dialogue
Strategic Interaction and the Seminar Framework
(Re)defining Regional Security
2 Arms Control as a Process
When Theory Meets ACRS
Track II Diplomacy
Refining the Arms Control Game
The Case Study
3 The Middle East Arms Control Dialogue
Seminar Diplomacy: A Review of the Talks
Initial Conceptions of Security
Framing the Security Debate
4 The Process of Arguing: Effects of the Seminar Framework
Dynamics of Convergence and Divergence
CSBMs: The Common Language of Arms Control
An Altered Security Conception?
Limited Constitutive Effect of Seminar Diplomacy on Egypt
5 Arab Nationalism and Egypt’s Leadership Identity
Arabism: Ideology, Interest, or Norm?
Egypt: Hegemony and Pan-Arabism Sadat’s Move for Peace
The 1990s: Arabism and Egypt’s Continued Leadership Interest
6 Egypt’s Role in the Arms Control Dialogue
Egypt's Agenda
Framing the Arab Security Interest
Securitization of the Nuclear Issue
The Challenge to Egypt’s Leadership Role
7 Bilateral Dynamics within the Multilateral Framework
Egypt's Ambivalent Approach
The Cultural Dimension: Recognition and Respect
Regional Rivals, Strategic Dialogue Partners
Implications for the Nature of the Game
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
This book is an analysis of unofficial,
or Track II, diplomacy on arms control in the Middle East during
the 1990s. The study pays particular attention to Egypt, which
has long called for a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
Track II arms control diplomacy from 1992 to1995 came to be known
as the Arms Control and Regional Security working group or ACRS.
Unfortunately, as Landau notes, the series of unofficial talks
eventually broke down. Egypt insisted that Israel discuss its non-declared
nuclear weapons capabilities while Israeli delegations argued that
conventional forces and regional peace treaties had to be discussed
before the nuclear issue could be tackled. Landau discusses Egypt’s
frustrations over its inability to get other Arab states to follow
Cairo’s diplomatic lead, and for Egypt to achieve the security
leadership role to which it aspires in the region. This study is
an important intellectual benchmark for arms control in the Middle
East, a region which looks primed for even greater arms control
challenges in the future. Recommended.
Choice
This exceptionally thorough and perceptive examination of
the role of ideas and seminar diplomacy in multilateral arms control
negotiations is a major contribution to international relations
theory and to our understanding of Middle Eastern regional security.
It shows persuasively that the 1990s Middle East arms control multilateral
negotiations, which have frequently been dismissed as mere ‘talk-shops’,
played a crucial role in building the conceptual and practical foundations
of an institutionalized practice of arms control in the region.
Emily Landau demonstrates that if there is the will one day to break
the Middle East logjam, there is a way.
Prof. Emanuel
Adler, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair in Israel Studies, University
of Toronto
Emily Landau’s Arms Control
in the Middle East is a significant contribution to understanding
one of the most important issues in Middle Eastern strategic inter-state
relationships, as any major progress in the politics of Israeli–Arab
relations depends heavily on management of regional security issues.
Landau analyzes in depth the ACRS negotiations, the first formal
multilateral attempt to regulate regional security, and assesses
its limited successes and ultimate failure. Her presentation combines
theoretical insights with penetrating assessments of the participant
states. In addition to its scholarly contribution to the fields
of security studies and arms control, Landau’s book provides
useful insights for future regional security arrangements.
Yair Evron, Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department,
Tel Aviv University
This significant book on Middle East arms
control presents a particular and innovative concept of arms control
that was initiated in 1991 at Madrid and applied to the region.
The main lesson of this interesting attempt is that arms control
should be achieved by the concerned parties through regional dialogue
and by addressing the security concerns of the participating states.
Emily Landau’s book provides valuable conceptual and empirical
ideas for decision-makers and scholars who aspire for a better Middle
East.
Prof. Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem
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